Sickle-holder.



A. G. KIOUS.

SIOKLE HOLDER. APPLICATION IILED MAR-26, 1909.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

In venZor 'wiI-rgesses UNITED STATES PATENT it ABSOLEM C. KIOUS, OF NEAR MERIDEN, KANSAS.

SICKLE-HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABsoLEM G. KIoUs, a citizen of the United States, and residing near Meriden, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sickle-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to hold one end of a sickle-bar while the beveled teeth are being ground or sharpened on a grindstone, the other end being held and guided by the hand or by any other suitable means.

It comprises a base on which are erected two standards, a rod extending between the two standards and vertically adjustable thereon, with a clamp freely riding on the rod and to which the end of the sickle-bar is secured; the part-s being so arranged that as the bar is moved along the grind-stone to bring successive teeth thereon, the bar will maintain a position in the same plane, so as to grind all the teeth on the same angle, and also whereby this angle may be varied, or the sickle reversed, to meet any condition, without changing the grind-stone, and also whereby the operator may handle the sickle With one hand.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, and in the description of the drawings, I have shown my invention in its preferred form, and have shown the best mode of applying the principles thereof, but it is to be understood that the invention is not confined to the exact details of the drawings and of the description, and that, within the scope of the appended claims, I contemplate changes in form, proportions, materials, the transposition of parts, and the substitution of equivalent members, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sickleholder made in accordance with the principles of my invention, with a dotted outline of a sickle clamped thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail of the pivoted standard and adjacent parts. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the sickle clamp with a section of the rod. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of the clamp for adjustably securing the rod to the standards, with a section of the standard.

Similar reference numerals indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views.

As a base I prefer to use the two crosspieces 5, 5 connected by the strips 6, 6, se-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 26, 1909.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

Serial No. 485,870.

12 is a rod extending between the two I standards and vertically adjustable on the standards, being independently adjustable as to each standard. This adjustment is preferably secured by means of the clamps 13 which can be moved vertically on the standard and clamped thereto at any point by means of a thumb-screw 14.

15 is the sickle-clamp having a hole 16 through which the rod 12 extends freely, and having a socket 17 for the sickle-bar, and a slot 18 for the blade, together with a thumbscrew 19, for securely holding one end of the sickle 20.

In using this device, it is placed close to the grind-stone, and the rod is set at such an angle as will bring the teeth with the proper bevel on the face of the stone. Obviously, the sickle may be held in one hand and guided on the grind-stone, while the clamp 15 riding on the rod 12 will always maintain the sickle, and consequently the bevel, at the same respective angles. Where it is desired to grind the other bevels, the right-hand end of the rod may be raised on the standard 10, and the lefthand end adjusted on the standard 8 so as to bring the sickle in proper alinement.

The standard 10 being secured on a pivot permits setting the rod at any desired angle although the standard 8 is rigidly secured to the base. The ends of the rod 12 may be turned into eyelets and thus pivoted to the clamps 13 respectively, which permits the rod to be set at any angle though the clamps may always be rigidly secured to the stand ards.

What I claim is:

1. The combination of a base with two standards erected thereon, a rod extending between the standards and vertically adjustable thereon, the two ends being inde pendently adjustable, and a sickleclamp movable freely on the rod.

2. The combination of a base with two standards erected thereon, 'a rod, a clamp at each end of the rod and adjustably secured to a standard, and a sickle-clamp movable freely on the rod.

3. The combination of a base with two standards erected thereon, one of said stand: iltmovable longitudinally on the rodand havards being rigidly secured to the base and ing a sickle-bar socket 17, a blade slot 18, the other being pivoted thereto, a rod eX- and aset-screw for holding the sickle therein.

tending between said standards, each end be- In testimony whereof I have hereunto 5 ing independently vertically adjustable on, signed my name in the presence of witnesses. 15

its respective standard, and a sickle-clamp I ABSOLEM O KIOUS movable longitudinally on said rod.

4:. In a device of the kind described, the Witnesses: combination of suitable standards and a rod W. E. SEAL, 10 extended therebetween, with a sickle-clamp N. E. MUSSELMAN. 

